Green Party councillor and General Election candidate for Wicklow Deirdre de Burca was surprised by news today that Mildred Fox TD has decided not to stand as a candidate for election to the Dáil in 2007.
Cllr de Burca said: “Mildred’s news has taken everybody by surprise. The Fox family have been a political dynasty in [...]

Yesterday’s traffic chaos shows how a road-based transport system will never work.
Green Party General Election candidate, Deirdre de Burca said today: “The traffic gridlock that Wicklow commuters experienced on the N11 on Wednesday is absolutely unacceptable with constituents reporting to me that they spent anything from one hour to seven hours getting back to Wicklow [...]

Following a recent public meeting in the Tinahely Courthouse Centre organised by the campaign group ‘GM-free Ireland’, Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca has called for County Wicklow to be declared a GM-free zone.
The Green Party councillor says that bans on GMO crops have been adopted in nine counties in the Republic including Cavan, Clare, [...]

Green Party councillors have questioned why the 20,000 euros that were allocated by Wicklow County Council in its 2006 budget for enhancement works on the Southern Cross Road have not been spent. Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, closely questioned council officials at a recent meeting of the Bray councillors on Wicklow County Council.
“I was [...]

Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca has expressed her concern at the collapse of a road in the Church Gate estate, next to the County Buildings in Wicklow Town. De Burca says that the residents of Church Gate are now in a very difficult situation. The entry road to their estate has now collapsed and [...]

Green Party councillors have questioned the recent announcement by Ballymore Homes, developers of the proposed Florentine Centre on Bray Main St, which they are to “amalgamate” with the developers of the Golf Club lands in order to develop a “complementary retail strategy”.
Councillors on Bray Town Council received a letter by registered post from Ballymore Homes, [...]

Substandard single hull vessel carrying over a tonne of plutonium-laced MOX fuel is due to enter Irish Sea in days
Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca called on the Government today to prevent a lethal shipment of plutonium from entering the Irish Sea.
Cllr de Burca said: “The Atlantic Osprey ship, owned by the British Nuclear Group [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has expressed her concerns about the limits of the Business Investment Districts Scheme (BIDS) as an instrument for revitalising the town of Bray.
De Burca made her comments following a discussion of the BIDS scheme at a recent meeting of Bray Town Council. “We were discussing the very necessary commercial [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca has queried Wicklow Town Council’s plans to implement road works at the junction where the Dunbur Rd ends outside Flannery’s Shop at the south end of Wicklow Town.
De Burca says that Wicklow Town Councillors recently approved works that will see the width of the junction outside Flannery’s shop significantly [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has called on Wicklow County Council to intervene to protect the old La Touche Hotel building in Greystones which she points out is a listed building.
She says that the building is now in a state of disrepair with windows broken and boarded up and acts of vandalism being carried [...]